Baby registry

My baby shower is soon and there's been 0 action recently on baby registry... which makes think either people are waiting last minute (I'm registered on Amazon, so last min planning would not be ideal) or they are planning to buy things on their own. I have put a lot of time and thought into creating this registry. Even updating it ever few days when items become unavailable. It's not the end of the world. I would be grateful for any gifts... and I'm also feeling annoyed.

I don't think I'm looking for any advice here. I just needed a place to communicate my annoyance.

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How far away is your baby shower? I only bought my friend's gift for her shower less than a week before the shower. I have Amazon Prime so it got here within plenty of time. I tend to be a last-minute gift buyer and find many people to be the same. When I threw my sister's baby shower I was obsessively checking her registry to see if anyone bought anything and no one bought anything till the week before...some bought the day of!!

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~Maryam,MommytoBeautifulPrincess A (Jan. '09) and Prince A (Aug. '14) ~

This happened to me. I just had my shower this past weekend. I got gifts but no one used the gift registry. I got some gift cards so I just used those to buy some of the items off my registry. I'll just have to buy everything else my self before it gets too close to my due date.

I understand how you're feeling I put a lot of thought, time and energy into my registry at babies R us and target and out of 100 people that showed up to my baby shower, out of all the gifts received this past weekend only, 13 gifts were purchased between both registries. I got a lot of great stuff and I am so grateful but I just don't think people go off registries like we hope. Most people like to pick out their own gifts or give gift cards. I wouldn't expect too much off the registry unfortunately but you will end up with useful things.

I understand how you're feeling I put a lot of thought, time and energy i...

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10/03/2017

I understand how you're feeling I put a lot of thought, time and energy into my registry at babies R us and target and out of 100 people that showed up to my baby shower, out of all the gifts received this past weekend only, 13 gifts were purchased between both registries. I got a lot of great stuff and I am so grateful but I just don't think people go off registries like we hope. Most people like to pick out their own gifts or give gift cards. I wouldn't expect too much off the registry unfortunately but you will end up with useful things.

Most of my gifts were purchased through my registry, or purchased at BBB and scanned onto my registry at checkout so at least I knew where they came from. But I'm starting to see that isn't the norm for a lot of people.

I did! The monster in law got out of control inviting everyone and their mother that SHE knew.. a lot of people that I've never met lol and I had anxiety leading up to it, trust me but she was excited and we are grateful for all the support. DH (dear husband) has a huge family, my family along with church friends, so many people. A few hours into it my feet where swollen and I was done for the day with my feet elevated and iced while everyone entertained themselves 😆 A huge help for us though, everyone was understanding and I'm sooo glad it over! ✌🏼

I just had my first shower this last weekend and most of the gifts were liter...

Posted
10/03/2017

I just had my first shower this last weekend and most of the gifts were literally purchased the same day. Out of 15 only 3 were purchased before hand.

Also I did an Amazon registry and a buy buy baby registry. Not one person bought from my Amazon registry. If it was on my Amazon registry they either went to Target or buy buy baby to get the same thing.

For my shower with DD, most of the registry items were purchased about a week before my shower. About half the people didn't buy anything off the registry either.

This time, we didn't even pass out registry info in the invites because it's our second girl. We're really just doing the diaper raffle and want to celebrate with friends for this little girl. Some people have figured out we had a registry that we created just for completion discounts. But I've heard a majority of people are just getting us gift cards so we can buy whatever we find out we need. Basically the only registry items purchased are what I've purchased so far. Someone found my Amazon registry this weekend and got me some of my nursing items (nursing pads, nipple cream, adapters for the new pump, etc). So that's exciting.

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